 /*******************************************************************************
  * Copyright (c) 2006 IBM Corporation and others.
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
  * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
  *
  * Contributors:
  * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
  *******************************************************************************/
 package org.eclipse.core.runtime.spi;

 import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IExtensionRegistry;

 /**
  * Implement this interface to specify a contributed extension registry.
  * <p>
  * This interface can be used without OSGi running.
  * </p><p>
  * This interface may be implemented by clients.
  * </p><p>
  * <b>Note:</b> This class/interface is part of an interim API that is still under
  * development and expected to change significantly before reaching stability.
  * It is being made available at this early stage to solicit feedback from pioneering
  * adopters on the understanding that any code that uses this API will almost certainly
  * be broken (repeatedly) as the API evolves.
  * </p>
  * @see org.eclipse.core.runtime.RegistryFactory#getRegistry()
  * @see org.eclipse.core.runtime.RegistryFactory#setDefaultRegistryProvider(IRegistryProvider)
  * @since org.eclipse.equinox.registry 3.2
  */
 public interface IRegistryProvider {

     /**
      * Returns the extension registry contributed by this provider; must not
      * be <code>null</code>.
      *
      * @return an extension registry
      */
     public IExtensionRegistry getRegistry();
 }

